Re: Weekly Vocab 24
| From: | Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 7, 2004, 4:29 |
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--- Christopher Wright wrote:
> field
I have three word roots (so far) in Tech, depending on the condition of the
field.
Hk>- "worked/tilled field, farming land" (H = pharyngeal h, k> = ejective k)
Hk>l@- same (Arabic loan)
wl` "unworked/wild field, meadow, open space" (l` = retroflex l)
q>n- "field, land, country area" (common placename suffix)
> take away
grwt- "take away, seize, remove, carry off; booty, spoils, hostage"
(quadriliteral, merger of two Nostratic roots gr- and wt- that mean the same
thing):
That's all I have for now, unless you want a bunch of Arabic loans I'm using
as stand-ins until I come up with more original vocabulary (and Nostratic
isn't so original either).
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